Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-10-27 | Page 52 | Old Shoo Fly Mine is Still Puzzle

010 SHOO FLY MINE IS STILL PUZZLE Collection of Boulders Out of Hidden Lead Yielded About $200,000. " , The old Shoo Fly mine, ten miles from Salmon, northwest, was a sensation sensa-tion thirty years ago. The' ore occurrence occur-rence called out theories from tho transient tran-sient experts that were contradictory from every possible angle. About $200,000 was returned from a collection of boulders varying in size from 100 tons in weight to the size of a wash-tub, which were harvested like pumpkins from a field of surface wash. The boulders were broken and hauled three miles to a mill site on Moose creek, the nearest water supply. They were milled in a small stamp and amalgamation amal-gamation plant, the only reduction process available for the use of the pioneer pio-neer miners. The loss over the plates averaged $10 a ton. There were more or less sulphides in the boulders, which carried- high values. The tailings wore washed into the creek never to have the gold reseued. , These rich boulders were detached from some great quartz vein subjected to nature's chemical processes of dissolution. disso-lution. This detached the surface section sec-tion from the foundation base which filled a fissure that . extended far into the uplifted mountain that stands thousands thou-sands of feet above the level but broken by the dynamic forces thaf make mountains, Tho quartz vein in its primary pri-mary state was divided into sections by heavy sulphide divisions which segregated seg-regated the boulders of quartz into their varying sizes and shapes, when the great vein was attacked by solvents. Manganese is one of the important minerals of geological formation of the Moose creek sector. The combination of manganese with the acids carried in circulating surface waters dissolves even gold when the precious metal is associated in the primary formations. This natural solvent destroyed all of the great Shoo Fly fissure except the sections of solid quartz which remained intact and formed the mysterious i3hoo Fly boulders with the gold sealed therein." there-in." Newton Hibbs in Salmon City (Idaho) Recorder.